The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.

You want something enough that you’re going to hurt, then you stay, and keep it.

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

School is the path, not the point.